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Mat Paskins: The future in history

Mat Paskins tells a story of black sand conjuring emotions, which bring history to life.

• 15 mins

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Daniela Papi: The Problem with Volunteering

Daniela Papi explores the dark side of volunteering overseas.

• 15 mins

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Stewart Henderson: Poetry in Politics

Stewart Henderson makes the case for putting poetry back in political rhetoric.

• 15 mins

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Emma Byrne: Why We Swear

Science writer Emma Byrne explores the benefits of swearing.

• 15 mins

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Henry Stewart: Choose Your Boss

Henry Stewart argues that we should choose our own bosses.

• 15 mins

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Anna Woodhouse: Windows to the Soul

Anna Woodhouse explores what looking through glass and glasses means for us.

• 15 mins

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Steven Poole: Think for Yourself

Steven Poole argues that we should resist the idea that humans are irrational.

• 15 mins

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Dick Moore

Dick Moore calls for urgent action to tackle the problems of adolescent mental health.

• 15 mins

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Judith Shapiro

Economist Judith Shapiro believes the next steps towards women's equality will be harder.

• 15 mins

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Jamie Tehrani

Social anthropologist Jamie Tehrani dissects our obsession with celebrity culture.

• 15 mins

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Kevin Allen

Kevin Allen explains how missing airline cutlery shows where business leaders go wrong.

• 15 mins

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Andrew Graystone

Andrew Graystone argues that we are using the wrong language to talk about cancer.

• 15 mins

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Jad Adams

Jad Adams thinks we are dealing with homelessness less well than in the 1930s.

• 15 mins

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Yasmin Hai

Yasmin Hai gives her personal perspective on the radicalisation of young British Muslims.

• 15 mins

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Greg Votolato

Greg Votolato confesses his addiction to cars, while arguing for more sustainable designs.

• 15 mins

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Alan Bissett

Author Alan Bissett on his journey from lad to feminist.

• 15 mins

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Emily Bell

Emily Bell considers the affect of cyberspace on actual space.

• 15 mins

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Danny Dorling

Prof Danny Dorling on why he thinks the population bomb has already been diffused.

• 15 mins

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Mona Siddiqui

Prof Mona Siddiqui considers the importance of friendship in a divided world.

• 15 mins

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Language Is Power

Lindsay Johns says language is power, and makes the case for speaking English properly.

• 15 mins

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Drugs in Sport

Paul Dimeo argues that drugs have made modern sport what it is today.

• 15 mins

Series 4

Hello Cheeky

Farrah Jarral puts the case for more cheekiness.

• 15 mins

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Empires of Attention

Matt Locke examines how our attention has shaped our culture.

• 15 mins

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Learning from our teenage selves

Molly Naylor explores what we can learn from our teenage selves.

• 15 mins

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How to Remember

Sam Edwards argues that we should think again about how we memorialise war.

• 15 mins

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Putting Profit in Its Place

Jane Burston argues that we should put profit in its place: as a means to an end.

• 15 mins

Series 4

Ambivalence: For and Against

Mark O'Connell argues that in an age of strong opinions, we should embrace ambivalence.

• 14 mins

Series 4

Chemophobia

Chemistry lecturer Mark Lorch asks why we are all so afraid of chemicals.

• 15 mins

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Courage and Effect

Brian Lavery on how a fishwife from Hull changed the country's most dangerous industry.

• 15 mins

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Refugee Stories

Agnes Woolley examines what is missing from the stories told by, and about, refugees.

• 15 mins